Paging the engineering types

?I'm struggling to get hold of some steel and I know there are some
Engineering in UKRM
All the websites purporting to supply domestic DIY'ers want silly money

I am looking for a sheet of 6mm Mild Steel sheet. 180mm x 260mm ( 7” x 10”)
and 2 x 50mm Angle x 200mm long

nice n clean, not rusty

Can anyone help? happy to pay cash
TIA

 

What you want for that kind of stuff is to look up "Steel Stockholder" in
the yellow pages.

 

Our local place, Devizes Steel Supplies keep this sort of thing in stock.
They will guillotine the plate and cut the angle to order. Bear in mind that
the finish on most plate and angle is as it comes from the mill (hot rolled
and covered in scale).
If you want bright finish, BMS (bright mild steel) is available but much
more expensive.
As Jim stated in hi post, you want a steel stockholders.

JB

 

What you really want is a rare beast these days: a scrap yard where you
can rummage. There's one near Pip and me (O'Dells in Biggleswade).

If you find one, treasure it.

 

Jb spoke:

Or a steel fabricator, who is bound to have lots of
off-cuts lying around.

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Looks like Rab C Nesbit.

 

Try ebay. Eg http://stores.ebay.co.uk/Metal-Mania?_trksid=p4340.l2563

Can work out expensive, but convenient.

 

cleaning up is fine, i just want paint to stick thats all.
6mm was just so I can thread it and bolt stuff to it, 5mm just did'nt seem
meaty enough
Thanks for the offerd on't go out of your way but if you can get a price
please that'd be great.
If I find some in the mean time, Ill let you know
Cheers

 

nice bike run up to Devizes, thats a nice option
some lovely roads and a great tea shoppe in Marlborough too
thanks for the tip

 

yeh, one ebay seller wanted £ 90 + £ 20 delivery
I used to work in a robotic welding machine factory and I'm pretty sure
thats expensive
I've emailed your link thanks, will see what they come up with
Cheers

 

I was going to query that: I was taught that BMS was Black Mild Steel and
BDMS was Bright Drawn Mild Steel, but it seems that BMD == BDMS these
days.

 

I suspect you're probably sorted, but Mackay's metal warehouse in
Cambridge would probably do that.

 

Or as they used to be called when i rebuilt the Mk1 RS2000 - heaven.

The one near Caistor was a day out & we used to have a great day at it
too...

 

I assume you've looked in YP and found Steel Stockholders? Most of them
won't be interested in piddling small amounts, but some will.
Failing that, farmers buy steel plate, box, bar and angle for doing
stuff around the farm, so look up Farm Supplies.

 

There was a great scrappy called Lenny Meddler's just off the A140
outside Aylsham in Norfolk.

http://maps.google.co.uk/?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=52.731894,1.252441&spn=0.0038
14,0.009645&t=h&z=17

Looks like it's all been cleared out now, but you can see some cars
still sitting around here and there on the outskirts of the trees. The
field with the tyre tracks was rammed with cars when I lived around
that area. As you drove up the drive there were loads of old car roofs
sitting up each side, it took me a few visits to realise they used to
be complete 1930s and 40s cars that had slowly rusted away until all
that was left was the upper part of the body sunk into the ditch and
the roof showing above it.

Lenny lived in the huge house in the middle of the woods, and there was
a fenced off compound with his special cars in, like Lotus Cortinas and
all manner of damaged 50s and 60s exotica, about 60 or 70 of them all
told.

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they churn out)

 

Then you are going to want to sand it and etch prime it any way.

Fraser

 

£ 32 + delivery, that'll do
thanks for the link and thanks to all for offers of help

 

?"Pip" wrote in message

all sorted now thanks for your help

 

?"Vass" wrote in message

ah, he's re-quoted, even better
£19.80 plus £12.00 carriage

 

?"Pip" wrote in message

Ah, see the post re: amazing timelapse?
I did order the Dolly that tracks the camera, but after some thought, I
cancelled the order
and I'm going to have a go at making it
Mainly because I'm sure I can build it for a lot less than the $ 650
purchase price,
after all its just a DIY'er cashing in on the interest he created with is
invention.

its this
http://www.dynamicperception.com/

 

My mistake probably. Our local supplier always understands when I just ask
for 'bright'.

JB